Chapter 214 – Treasure hunt commences soon!
The company of two beautiful girls would’ve been a matter of joy for anyone else, but not for Bi Fan.
Hong Yan seemed to be innocent but Bi Fan and his companions knew nothing about her background.
Bi Fan didn’t want to start a quarrel, but he knew that expelling Zi Wei and Hong Yan wouldn’t be easy.
Among Bi Fan and his companions, only Jing Feng had a way with girls. But in front of two young girls, even he was helpless. Jing Feng didn’t have the heart to deceive them, especially Zi Wei.
“If these two girls continue to stay with us, we might miss the opportunity to find Tong Tian Sect’s hidden storehouse!” w.a.n.g Zhong smiled bitterly.
“Ah, yes, if we kept these girls in our company, someone will surely thrash us.” Blue Dragon had no interest in girls; he was only interested in practising martial arts.
Bi Fan was as helpless: “There’s no other way out. We have to work step by step.”
The next morning, Zi Wei and Hong Yan started their battle of wits while Bi Fan was greatly irked by it.
He decided to skip his breakfast and went out immediately left for Martial Street to watch the matches.
Not knowing what to do, Zi Wei followed Bi Fan and was in turn followed by Hong Yan.
“It seems that he has grown sick of all the drama.” Jing Feng laughed on as he and the other boys followed Bi Fan.
After reaching the Martial Street, Bi Fan searched for a ring and started watching the ongoing match earnestly.
Bi Fan didn’t want anyone or anything to disturb him while watching the match.
“Zi Wei, what is Brother Bi Fan doing? These matches are so boring, yet they interest him so much. Hasn’t he ever seen people fighting each other?” Hong Yan asked.
Hong Yan’s curiosity was no less than Zi Wei’s, so she casually asked her.
Hong Yan was always following Zi Wei, finding excuses to talk to her. She obviously wanted to get closer to her.
“I don’t know what goes on inside his head, but he watches these matches every day.” Zi Wei replied indifferently.
Zi Wei didn’t want to talk to Hong Yan and she was always dissatisfied with Bi Fan for watching matches every day, which had made her a little rude towards both of them.
Bi Fan heard her words, but chose to remain silent and continued focussing on remembering the martial skills.
Bi Fan specialized in memorizing the other people’s martial skills by just watching them once; he obviously couldn’t tell anyone about it.
A lot of talented people existed in this world but very few people can remember the techniques used by the people contesting in such matches.
As there was no law against memorizing and using other people’s battle techniques, even if one couldn’t memorize the techniques, he always could gain some experience by watching the matches.
Bi Fan wanted to find a martial skill that he could integrate with ‘The Immortal Finger’ technique to enhance its power. Therefore, he was putting his heart and soul in memorizing the maximum number of techniques while watching these matches.
Since ‘The Immortal Finger’ technique was a well-kept secret of Bi Fans’, he would definitely not tell anyone about his intentions of integrating this technique with some other martial skills.
If in due time Bi Fan succeeded to infuse the immortal finger with some other techniques, then no one would ever be able to detect it, which would allow him to use it to a great effect.
“Zi Wei, haven’t you known Brother Bi Fan from a long time?” Hong Yan asked.
“Oh no, no! I met Bi Fan only ten days ago.” Zi Wei, being overly innocent, didn’t see any reason to lie to her.
Hong Yan was surprised: “Then why do you follow him?”
“I don’t follow him. It’s just that we found ourselves to be compatible to each other, and so we decided to hang out together.” Zi Wei replied plainly.
“Zi Wei, I find you to be compatible with me. That’s why I want to stay in your company.” Hong Yan couldn’t hide her excitement while speaking.
“This…You should go back to the place you came from. Your family must be worried about you.” Zi Wei made an ugly face.
She wanted to stop Hong Yan’s advances, but had been largely unsuccessful thus far. Moreover, she couldn’t risk exposing her real ident.i.ty right now.
“Don’t worry about my family. I informed them before I came here.” Hong Yan replied with a smile.
Hong Yan had made up her mind, and she was willing to say anything to stay with Zi Wei.
Bi Fan was busy watching the matches. Zi Wei would often look towards Bi Fan, then have a glance of the match and would look at Bi Fan again, doing her best to ignore the pestilent Hong Yan who continued to stare at her adorably without even blinking her eyes.
Zi Wei was quite embarra.s.sed by her interests, which made her face blush.
At the same time, she couldn’t stop being amused by the fact that she, being a girl, was being adored by another girl.
Zi Wei thought to herself: “Hong Yan is really interesting. It would be fun to have her around.”
“Dear Hong Yan, how do you think of Brother Bi Fan?” Zi Wei asked her.
“Ah, well, he is a very nice person.” Hong Yan was baffled by this sudden question.
“Really? Even I think so! That’s why I like him so much.”
“Ah!” Hong Yan revealed a colour of surprise; she looked at Zi Wei and then at Bi Fan; she had clearly misunderstood Zi Wei.
Zi Wei continued: “Sister Hong Yan, since you like Brother Bi Fan, let me introduce him to you.”
“No…No…Please…I don’t want to…” Hong Yan hastily waved her delicate hands.
Zi Wei sighed: “Oh! So you like Jing Feng. Well, Jing Feng is such a pathetic boy. I don’t know what makes girls drool after him. Do you really like him? If not, who do you like? Brother w.a.n.g Zhong? Brother Blue Dragon? Brother Mo Nan? Or is it Brother Ji Ying Lan that you like?”
“No, no! I don’t like any of them! Zi Wei, I… I…” Hong Yan wanted to express her feelings but couldn’t gather the courage because of they were surrounded by so many people at that time.
“You don’t like anyone? Well, then let me watch the match.” Zi Wei said hastily as she didn’t want to get embarra.s.sed in front of so many people.
Hong Yan feared being rejected by Zi Wei in front of everyone, and she decided to keep her mouth shut.
On the other hand, Zi Wei found Hong Yan to be same as her and didn’t want to hurt her feelings in front of everyone, therefore she resorted to watching the match.
However, Hong Yan had been following Zi Wei everywhere and was clinging to her, which was rather annoying for Zi Wei; not knowing any means to get rid of Hong Yan only made her more anxious.
She looked towards Jing Feng urging for help, but Jing Feng shook his head, implying that he couldn’t help her.
Jing Feng and the others had been laughing among themselves while watching Hong Yan clinging to Zi Wei and had no intentions of helping her out of this mess.
Therefore, Zi Wei turned to another side, ignoring Hong Yan.
Bi Fan also noticed Zi Wei’s embarra.s.sment while watching the matches and was quite content at his heart, deriving pleasures from another’s misfortunes.
The mischievous-minded Zi Wei had finally found someone who could trouble her, and therefore he decided to allow Hong Yan to pester Zi Wei.
“Jin Suo, you think you can seize the treasure of the Tong Tian sect’s secret storehouse? You are so stupid!”
“Tan Yun Fei, you are no better than me. Your school is so mediocre that they couldn’t teach you any special skills. You just don’t have what it takes to find the secret storehouse!”
Such petty arguments were a common sight all around the Tong city. The compet.i.tion to find the treasure of Tong Tian sect’s secret storehouse hadn’t commenced yet and this had created a huge unrest among the martial artists who had gathered in the city. As a result, they would often provoke each other and eventually ended up fighting amongst themselves.
“Strong martial artists have gathered in the city from all over the land, please be careful everyone. Avoid provoking and getting provoked by anyone.” Bi Fan urged again and again.
Bi Fan knew that the treasure hunt had not commenced yet. He was well aware of the fact that once the treasure hunt commenced, several martial artists would try to settle their personal enmities and many people would die in this process.
They all had to stay away from trouble as much as they possibly could before the treasure hunt finally commenced.
Although Bi Fan and all his companions were quite powerful in their own accord, still they didn’t want to stir up unnecessary trouble.
“What are you afraid of? Are you not powerful enough?” Hong Yan asked.
Jing Feng smiled: “Yes, our strength is not too much. If we provoked a powerful enemy, then we all might get killed.”
a.s.sessing from the way Hong Yan carried herself, Jing Feng and the other knew that Hong Yan belonged to a n.o.ble family and perhaps was a disciple of some renowned school just like Zi Wei.
Jing Feng definitely didn’t want to argue with her and hence agreed with whatever she said rather than explaining everything to her.
Mo Nan said: “The martial artists that have gathered here to hunt for the treasure of Tong Tian sect’s secret storehouse are indeed powerful; we can’t look down upon them.”
“Since the treasure hunt hasn’t started yet and you all are already afraid, I won’t ask you to take any risk. I have heard that treasures like this are limited and the number of compet.i.tors is always too high. Most of the contenders will want to seize the transmission token, and that’s what usually causes fierce a struggle and eventually leads to bloodshed.” Hong Yan said.
Even the innocent Zi Wei had a.s.sessed by now that Hong Yan hailed from some influential family or school. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have known so much.
“Sister Hong Yan, how do you know so much about the treasure hunt of the Tong Tian Sect’s secret storehouse?” Bi Fan couldn’t stop himself from asking.
All of them were really amazed with Hong Yan’s knowledge.
“Well… I won’t tell you; it’s a secret.” Hong Yan said, holding her head high.
“Sister Hong Yan, we are friends. Your secret will be safe with us.” Jing Feng said with a smile.
“I don’t trust anyone here except Zi Wei.” Hong Yan said.
“Zi Wei, come here, I’ll tell you.”
Since Zi Wei was also curious about knowing how Hong Yan had so much information about Tong Tian sect’s secret storehouse, she walked towards her.
Hong Yan whispered something very lightly in Zi Wei’s ear; her voice was so low that no one could hear her except Zi Wei.
“What! There are three days left for the treasure hunt to commence!” Zi Wei could not help but exclaim loudly.
“Zi Wei, didn’t I ask you not to tell anyone?” Hong Yan was short of breath.
Zi Wei waved her hand: “I’m sorry, Hong Yan. I didn’t intend to disclose it to the others. I was just too surprised to stay silent.”
“Alright, but don’t tell anyone else now.” Hong Yan said.
“Of course, Hong Yan. We’ll keep our mouths shut.” Mo Nan a.s.sured her.
Knowing that the treasure hunt was about to begin, Bi Fan, Jing Feng and the others were obviously quite excited now.